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A Coronation Street storyline played a vital part in helping a young mum to save her baby from deadly sepsis.

Aoife Duffy said her happy four-month-old “started to get really cranky” on Tuesday evening, then woke “roaring and crying” the next morning.

So she made a GP appointment to have little Eábha checked out, but being reminded of the Jack Webster storyline in Corrie where he was diagnosed with sepsis, prompted her to head straight for Craigavon’s Emergency Department instead.

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